How Too: The Fox Hole radio

Ok folks this is the first How Too of the year and i thought why the hell not go really really old school on your asses with a classic WW2 foxhole radio.
You should be aware that this kind of radio is basically a toy in comparison to any conventional modern radio pick up but as a project for a wasted weekend its a corker.

Ok so why am i going so simple with you all of a sudden? well simply i want to see what you lot can actually do before we move on to some considerably more difficult and interesting projects in future How Too's this year.

so give it a shoot and tell me how yours turned out.

NOTE: Blued and superheated razorblades can be purchased at most drugstores or if your feeling cheap and normal razor blade can be heated to functional temperature over almost any decent heat source such as a gas lighter or open flame or hob top of any conventional oven.

Movie Night: The day the earth stood still (2008)

Well you asked for it and never one to abuse or neglect my loyal fan base here it is in all its cinematic glory. Just copy pasta the link and movie going goodness is your for the grand old price of FREE!

Link: http://www.watchit3.com/mv.php?v=XMHMSZA8

so grab your popcorn and beverage of choice and enjoy the flim.

Be aware that this weekend i shall be attempting to find the classic version of this amazing film to upload for your viewing pleasure. just cross your fingers and hope that i manage to pull this one off.

Daily Blogg: well that sucked...

what can i say its been a traumatic month. as you may or may not know my whole Christmas present rundown that is oh so popular at this time of year got buggered up by my piece of *expletive deleted* computer basically refusing to boot up no matter what i did.

so as of today i gave up and toasted the son of a bitch and bought myself a high ens PC from the nice folks at PC world and am happy to say that normal service will resume as soon as is humanly possible after i finish setting up this Vista powered monstrosity and transferring all my software off the lump of plastic and pain that is my former personal computer.

Special thanks to Dustin for passing on my failure to stick to schedule in the comments section and to all the folks who noticed i had died at the various forums i frequent as well as those who continued to hit the site to see if i managed to pull myself out of this electronically induced hell

Daily Blogg: Chrimbo countdown!!!

Well im back and feeling funky! so its time for my annual Christmas countdown.

as usual i shall be doing festively orientated How Too's and some freebies in the form of down loadable comics and music splashed with holiday spirit and posted here on Aries Antics.

Let the Holidays begin!!

Daily Blogg: These things i cannot say

As many of you know im a writer and freelance Journalist willing to work pretty much anywhere at any time for a reasonable fee...

...this can lead to me being stuck in some more than a little difficult and "detaining" situations. One such situation raised its ugly head this week with me finding myself working for a popular gaming magazine that due to my inquisitive nature seen me held by some over zealous security personnel who believed i "borrowed" some rather exclusive imagery during the press conference.

6-8 hours later i emerged blinking into stark daylight from the gloom of the local police station with a now out of date plane and train ticket and bruises in places i really didn't want and left in the cold and insanely bright day waiting for my laptop, XBL memory card and camera to be released from the evidence department.

As im sure by now you have noticed it has taken me quite some time to get home. Normal service will resume as soon as i get some sleep and a shower.

Daily Blogg: Weekend AFK

I have been AFK all weekend due to quite a few commitments in the real world that required my personal attention, normal Blogging will resume when i get home sometime tonight around 21.00 GMT if i can shake off 48 hours of sleep deprivation and this sodding migraine that has plagued me since early Friday morning when i found out i had all this pre holiday work to do.

none the less tune in tomorrow and all should be well. Peace

How Too: make a bluetooth glove

Before you begin be warned that this is although very cool it is totally useless unless you waterproof the fingertips and the PCB and make a simple pad for the tactile interface (the switch) near the wrist or directly under the fingers as seen in the video. It is also wise to extend the Bluetooth active LED and place it within an eyelet housing on an inconspicuous part of the glove as well as making a Velcro opening at a seam so you can recharge the unit.

it cheap its cool and when combined with the spy cam hat (see previous how too's) can be enough to get you thrown our of pretty much any and every public area in town.

enjoy!

WARNING!
use of this device can and will make you look like a total idiot even after you explain what you are doing and demonstrate it functioning but luckily no more than a regular bluetooth headset.